Whilst social capital has been applied in a variety of contexts the nature, role and application of social capital in an entrepreneurial context have not been extensively explored. The nature of social capital presents a ...

Thompson, Paul(Robert Gordon University Gray's School of Art, 2014-02)

This research was initiated by questions raised from the researcher’s
professional activities in fine art printmaking and examines, through
contextualised artistic practice and critical enquiry, redefinitions in the
physical ...

Purpose – The paper aims to better understand the process of networking by small business with their customers to achieve innovations. In particular the relative roles of face-to-face and virtual interaction are to be ...

The relevance of networks for entrepreneurship is now well established. However,
despite the extent of work carried out there are still clear gaps in our understanding
about how networks change and adapt over time and ...

DRAKOPOULOU-DODD, S. and ANDERSON, A.R., 2007. Mumpsimus and the mything of the individualistic entrepreneur. International Small Business Journal, 25 (4), pp. 341-360

The purpose of this paper is to explore the persistence, in the face of
considerable evidence to the contrary, of the notion that entrepreneurship is
a purely individualistic practice. It may be that taking account of ...

SUTHERLAND, W. J., 2014. Optoelectronics in Scotland: network reconfiguration in a sectoral system of innovation. In: B. GALBRAITH, ed. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 18-19 September 2014. Reading: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Ltd. Pp. 438-445.

Optoelectronics (or photonics) has developed as a significant enabling technology central to the operation of a wide range of artefacts evident in telecommunications, consumer electronics, medical devices and defence. ...

The entrepreneurial context provides a fertile arena for the
study of networks. This qualitative study critically examines the nature,
content and process of strong ties, which are found to fall into three
categories: ...

Taguchi Methods (and other orthogonal arrays) may be used to train small Artificial Neural Networks very quickly in a variety of tasks. These include, importantly, Control Systems. Previous experimental work has shown that ...